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Last Resort

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Based on 1 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Rowan Joffe
Pawel Pawlikowski
Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 23, 2001
Running Time: 75 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Language(s): English and Russian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not rated
Starring Dina Korzun, Artyom Strelnikov, Paddy Considine, Lindsey Honey, Perry Benson, Katie Drinkwater, Dave Bean, and Adrian Scarborough
Abandoned by her fiance at the airport, a young Russian woman, with child in tow, applies for asylum in England. With her dreams of a better life dampened by the faded seaside resort she must live in during the processing, an unusual friendship develops that gives her hope. A lyrical, beautifully poetic story that earns its deep emotion, Last Resort is a triumph for director Paul Pawlikowski. (Shooting Gallery)
What The Critics Said
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Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Thanks to the wonderful performances from both Korzun and Considine, there isn't a forced or dishonest moment on-screen.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This is the best class of poetic realism, the kind you can believe in without a trace of hesitation.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
Maddin's movie is, frame for frame, the densest and most spectacular (albeit cardboard-cheap) film playing anywhere.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Loren King
A film that celebrates simple human kindness. If the ending feels somewhat unsatisfying, it is perhaps because one hates to see this too-brief film end at all.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine Peter Rainer
Unsatisfying at a very high level. It fritters away more than most movies ever offer up.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
It's a sweet and wise film - neither groundbreaking nor revolutionary save for the fact that it places narrative and character arc at the center of its concerns.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
A hopeless romantic meets a hapless realist in this gritty, elegant drama brimming with spontaneous-seeming close-ups.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
Sweet, melancholy comedy; it's ineffable charm lies entirely in the delivery.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
His (Pawlikowski) love story, which is by turns sensuous, charming, and uniquely moving.
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Quiet, finely etched and beautifully acted by Dina Korzun and the wise-beyond-his-years Artiom Strelnikov.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The new movie year's poignant love story to beat.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I like the way Last Resort ends, how it concludes its emotional journey without pretending the underlying story is over. You walk out of the theater curiously touched.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Pawlikowski, whose background is in documentary film, has an eye for the menacingly forlorn and elegantly bleak. Last Resort, which was shot without a script and developed largely in collaboration with the actors, is a kind of verité fantasy.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Though Last Resort dwells on sorrowful circumstances and illuminates a grim corner of contemporary reality, it is far from depressing.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Compelling, if sometimes grittily depressing, viewing.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Curt M. gave it a 9:
A beautiful, hypnotic romance. Has the very quality missing from most American films: authentic and identifiable human behavior. High recommendation.
